Farewell, fair cruelty.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
